Here's a small collection that relates to some Tolkien-related conferences (in whole or in part) which took place from 1966 to 1970:
Tolkien Papers
This is a first printing (from February 1967) of the proceedings of the Tolkien Festival which took place at Mankato State College in Minnesota in October 1966. This is generally accepted as having been the very first Tolkien conference.
Grima as King? from China resin set 2015 obviously copied from JLR Trilogy set
Tolkien Journal no. 10
This issue came out in November 1969, and contains several papers grouped under the heading Proceedings of the First Annual Tolkien Conference, Part I - a conference which took place at Belknap College in New Hampshire in October 1968.
LEGO Grima would be a logical chess piece
Tolkien Journal no. 11 / Orcrist no. 3
This issue contains a series of papers that were presented at the Secondary Universe Conference at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in May 1968. That conference covered both fantasy and science fiction, though the special issue of Arts in Society which published the proceedings was forced to omit the fantasy ones due to space constraints.
Qs-Ks- Tauriel, Gandalf the White, Saruman the White, Galadriel
Dark side with Gandalf as King & Tauriel as Queen
Mythcon I Proceedings
This publication contains a wealth of papers from the first annual Mythopoeic Conference which took place at the Claremont Colleges in California in September 1970. The copy I have isn't an original - it's a reprint which can be ordered directly from the Mythopoeic Society.
Light side with Saruman as King, Galadriel as Queen
Shadows of Imagination
This unassuming library copy is a second edition of a collection of essays edited by Mark Hillegas, which (per Hillegas in his introduction) had its origins in a conference named The Fiction of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien which took place at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America. That Meeting took place over 3 days in December 1966, only 2 months after the event at Mankato State College.
Qs-Ks- Tauriel, Gandalf the White, Saruman the White, Galadriel
Qs-Ks- Tauriel, Gandalf the White, Saruman the White, Galadriel
I was able to get some of those old issues at original price, I suppose, through the Mythopoeic Society. For me that was the golden age of Tolkien fandom in that some really worthwhile discussions were held that were also enthusiastic, and free of the more recent obsessions with raceclassandgender that someday may seem so oddly characteristic of our time. Many of the articles were not, I dare say, the last word on their topics but were good early words on them. The magazines were labors of love. I myself was a bit late to the party (mid-1970s), but it hadn't broken up yet.
Really great to see these Predictable Matt, thanks for sharing! I had some of these talks/papers saved digitally but now have a few more to look up and find.
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